Chicken tacos?

I was being sarcastic.

Not going to say that it's impossible, but ignoring that their name has been reported on in the news and just focusing on the people in academia: it can be a very close-knit community.

I know of a case of a doctoral student getting kicked out their doctoral programme, and given the boot from their university because they failed to disclose a previously attempted doctoral programme at another university in another country. I don't know the details but former doctoral supervisor and current supervisor were in contact/communication and the current university found out that they'd bombed/exited out of the previously-attempted PhD programme.

Wouldn't be surprised if it could have been sniffed out even without any communication in some fields of stud due to how specific and unique the research focus has to be for a PhD.

My concern is that the part of the AI bubble that doesn't vanish when the bubble pops will be left behind to scoop up under-utilised datacenter capacity: surveillance and tracking.

Oracle, Palantir, etc, are not going away anytime soon.

... that may affect some future roll-out of integrating more generative AI tools directly into UE5, or this is about the current 3rd party tools for UE5 that are enabling developers to add AI created stuff into their game projects?

Epic choosing or not to force game listings to display information on AI usage is one thing, and they have the right to do that or not, but it sounds like Tim is wanting the rest of the market to follow EGS for hiding this information. If it was a market vs market thing, then customers can "vote with their wallet" but it feels like this is more than just EGS vs Steam.

Yeah, just noticed that today in a ./ post.

I also didn't like it.

Yeah, and I will take it to the extreme for arctic environments (just to point out that with sufficient coldness even ICE cars face their own issues).

Car owners in Yakutsk have to: have a heated garaged (the heater running 24/7) to store their car, leave their car's engine running non-stop 24/7 (the engine left on to idle when not in use), or forgo the use of car during the Winter months and let the car freeze up. If the car engine stops, or the car is not kept in a heated environment when not-in-use, it may be impossible to get the car started until it warms up in Spring.

Maybe TACO Don is planning to open a golf course / bolthole there?

The Past being "being able to curate a collection of stuff that we increasingly get told that we no longer buy and/or own". For the people that this matters , of course.

It starts out small, and often not very noticeable, but is a like a digital comparable to half life of radioactive decay for data. Over the span of many years, we lose track/copies of things in a seemingly random manner. Ebooks, digital video/music purchases, video/music on physical media, our personal email data, photo collections saved to our phones/cloud-servers, etc.

If one doesn't try to maintain some collection of digital information, and just have a single copy on their phone/computer of recent stuff, then someone might find themselves with a gap of decades of their life missing.

That video of their child's first birthday party? Was only on that HTC Magic phone that you lost at the beach. The graduation photos of your child? You did back it up to Apple Cloud, but you got locked out of that account in 2032 and you never had any other copies elsewhere. All of your emails before 2038? Gone when Gmail lost it all in a massive failure at one of their data centres that effected millions of users in 2038.

Though physical letters, old B&W photographs, etc, arenot perfect (could still be damaged/lost) but we can still look up a lot on people from centuries ago.

Though having said that, government/corporate databases and profiles on everyone will probably last forever. Potentially every mouse movement, mouse clicks, etc, on every website visited, every single email/text/chat ever sent or received archived. As long as there is an economic or political value in it, then they will want to hold onto it forever.

If they are on the PC Game Pass, and you are a current subscriber to it, then yes.

For me the software side to the Xbox Ally and Ally X are much more interesting than the whole product itself. I will be very interested to see experts get a hold of the OS image — looking closely at the changes and how it operates differently to BAU Win11.

Assuming that the Armory Crate software is not too integrated into the OS, I'd like to see attempts at getting the OS running on desktop PC hardware.

"60% of the 5,500 finance professionals present will be "looking for work" next year due to AI disruption."

Super optimistic or deeply cynical take from Robert F. Smith.

It sounds like he thinks that AI is either "primed and ready to make solid decisions and not hallucinate bankrupt Private Equity firms", or "that 60% of the people in Private Equity are so useless that hallucinating LLMs can replace them".

Probably more thinking of keeping more of the money "in-house" with the wealth class as it seems like Private Equity can only fail upwards.

You don't have to 100% destroy the planes to give Ukraine breathing space. You don't even need to completely wreck a single plane. Even minor repairable damage to some of the planes could be a significant boost to Ukraine, and still a great victory in terms of cost/benefit (plus no casualties on Ukraine's side).

Wikipedia states Russia has 55 Tupolev Tu-95 planes in service as of 2020. If the 4 "irrecoverable planes" are Tu-95 planes, that'd be a near 10% reduction in their in service Tu-95 planes. Similar sort of percentage if any of the planes are Tu-22Ms.

If there are limited number of maintenance facilities available for the Tu-95 or Tu-22M planes (and I think that is a valid assumption) then potentially most of the damaged planes could be out of commission for some time.

Every hour of flight time will require many more hours of downtime for maintenance. Less usable planes, and a limited number of maintenance capacity, means less planes that they field at any singular time. The planes not considered "irrecoverable " might require years before they are air worthy again. Might require parts no longer available (but still "recoverable"). Or they might never be repaired due to the cost, and are mothballed or cannibalised for parts

Also less planes able to be used means more flight time on each plane in service. The life span of the currently remaining planes will be shorter.I could not find any quote for the Tu-95 or Tu-22M for maintenance time per fight time, but I am guessing its high (old Soviet era planes), in the 10-20 range for hours of maintenance per single hour of flight time. I did see a note somewhere that the NK-12MP engines in the Tu-95 have a maximum service capacity of 200 flight hours per year. Cutting corners on maintenance might mean a higher rate of faults developing, limited effectiveness in combat capacity, etc.

And if we are talking of symbolism, the drone attack absolutely embarrassed Putin/Russia. Full on "pants pulled down and everyone laughed at Putin's choice of underwear" levels of embarrassment.

I see that pathway of potential futures as a likely option, or I am probably being hopeful.

What I really see as inevitable (if not already here) is that Windows will annoy me so much (maybe with a touch of computer hardware locking itself down into integrated SoCs with little to no user customisation of the hardware) that I'll ditch Windows and go GNU/Linux. If future PC hardware essentially goes the Apple Silicone route, which would kill a lot of the fun my building/owning a gaming PC, I'd probably stay on older PC hardware (and would need to go GNU/Linux).

I want to see SteamOS grow and flourish. More options for is good, and Valve's contributions to GNU/Linux can only be see as a positive (well Stallman would likely disagree).

Pivot into Renewable IT branding.

Does the work but for less electricity.

Renewable workforce— plenty of new IIT graduates to exploit every year.

The "5070 = 4090" stuff thaT Nvidia talked up at the reveal have some very large caveats: loads of multiframe generation and in very specific games and settings for the games.

If you take a 4090 and a 5070 and throw a huge sample of different use cases by many different people, the "this is effectively like a 4090 for performance" responses will be very very smaller compared to the other responses.